FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 71, NO. 2 



Table 8. — Published data for scombroid and xiphoid fishes on maximum mass, the presence or absence of a gas 

 bladder, and the relative length of pectoral fins. Species are ordered from smallest to largest known mass. Where 

 only the length was known, mass was estimated from Figure 3 from a similarly shaped species. 



Maximum size 



Gas bladder 



Pectoral fins 



Species 



Mass 



Fork 

 length 



Source' 



Present 



Source' 



Short (<20% FL) 



Long (^20% FL) Source' 



kg 



Rastrelli^er faughni — 



Rastrelliger hrachyosoma — 



Rastrelliger kanagiiria — 



Cybiosarda elegans 1 



Scoitiberomonis miiltiradiatiis — 



Scomber japonicus — 



Scomber aiisiralasicus — 



Scomberomorus queenslandiciis 2 



Scomberomonts sierra 2 



Scomberomorus koreanus — 



Scomberomorus sinensis — 



Scomberomorus gullatus — 



Auxis rochei — 



Scomberomorus concolor — 



Sarda orienlalis 3 



Scomber scombrus 3 



Auxis thazard 4 



Scomberomorus triior 4 



Scomberomorus maculatus 5 



Euthynnus lineaius 5 



Sarda sarda 5 



Scomberomorus semifasciatus — 



Scomberomorus niphonius — 



Sarda chiliensis — 



Scomberomorus lineolatus 6 



Grammatorcynus bicarinaius 1 1 



Orcynopsis unicolor 13 



Allot hunnus fallai 14 



Thunnus allanticus 16 



Scomberomorus regalis 16 



Euthynnus affinis — 



Kalsuwonus pelamis 22 



Euthynnus alleieratus — 



Thunnus tonggol 27 



Scomberomorus cavalla 37 



Thunnus maccoyii — 



Thunnus alalunga AA 



Gasterochisma melampus — 



Scomberomorus commerson 59 



Acanthocybium solandri 63 



Gymnosarda unicolor 80 



Tetrapierus pftuegeri 90 



Teirapterus angustirostris 90 



Tetrapterus belone 90 



Istiophorus albicans 90 



Tetrapterus albidus 90 



Thunnus albacares 135 



Istiophorus platypterus 150 



Tetrapterus audax 180 



Thunnus ohesus 198 



Xiphias gladius 536 



Makaira mazara (Jordan and Snyder) — 



Makaira indica 700 



Thunnus thynnus 730 



Makaira nigricans 900 



(20) 

 (22) 

 (28) 



(35) 

 (45) 

 (75) 

 (59) 

 (60) 

 (65) 

 (82) 

 (60) 

 (68) 



(98) 



(100) 



(101) 



(72) 



(100) 

 (122) 



(145) 

 (165) 



(430) 



24 



19 



19 



6 



3 



1 

 6 



7 



10 



10 



6 



6 



10 



20 



3 



15 



31 



2 



5 



4 



25 



25 



16 



18 



36 



32 



6 



17 



3 



6 



6 



23 



6 



4 

 11 



6 



6 

 29 



6 

 21 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 33 



6 

 30 

 33 



6 

 27 

 27 

 30 

 38 

 33 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



No 



Yes 



No 



No 



Yes 



No 



No 



No 



No 

 No (rudi- 

 mentary) 



No 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



No 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 

 Yes 

 Yes 



9 

 9 

 9 



13 



24 



9 



9 



9 



12 



21 



9 



9 



12 



40 



36 



32 



35 



11 



9 



21 



39 



12 



11 



10 

 11 

 11 



9 

 10 



9 

 21 

 28 

 28 

 33 

 28 

 28 

 11 

 28 

 28 

 11 

 26 



28 

 11 



28 



1 Abe and Takashima (1959). 15 



2 Beardsley and Richards (1970). 16 

 ^ Bigelow and Schroeder ( 1953). i7 



4 Breder (1948). i8 



5 Calkins and Klawe (1963). •» 

 BCollette andGibbs (1963). 20 

 ^ Collette. Talbot, and Rosenblatt ( 1963). 21 



8 Fitch and Roedel (1963). 22 



9 Fraser-Brunner ( 1950). 23 

 "* Gibbs and Collette (pens. comm.). 24 

 " Gibbs and Collette (1966). 25 

 i2Godsil (1954). 26 

 '3Godsil (1955). 27 

 '4 Godsil and Byers ( 1944). 28 



Gosline and Brock (1960). 



Hildebrand (1946). 



Idyll and de Sylva (1963). 



Jones and Silas (1962a). 



Jones and Silas (1962b). 



Kikawa (1963). 



Kishinouye (1923). 



Lahille (1905). 



Marchal (1963). 



Matsui (1967). 



Munro (1943). 



Nakamura et al. ( 195 1). 



Nakamura, Iwai, and Matsubara (1968). 



Norman and Eraser (1948). 



29 0gilby (1954). 



^^ Osipov, Kizevetter and Zhuravlev 

 (1964). 



31 Postel (1955). 



32 Postel (1956). 



33 Robins and de Sylva (1963). 



34 Royce (1957). 



35 Serventy (1948). 



36 Silas (1963a). 



37 Silas (1963b). 



38 Tiews (1963). 



39 Waldron (1963). 

 ■»<' Williams (I960). 

 •»' Williams (1963). 



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